Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/The Life of Æsop

by Roger L'Estrange

THE

LIFE

OF

ÆSOP.

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Chapters (not listed in original)

Chapter I: Of Æsop’s Countrey, Condition, and Person.		1
Chapter II: Æsop and his Fellow-slaves Upon their Journey to Ephesus.		2
Chapter III: The Sale of Æsop to Xanthus.		3
Chapter IV: Xanthus Presents Æsop to his Wife.		4
Chapter V: Æsop’s Answer to a Gard’ner.		5
Chapter VI: Æsop’s Invetion to bring his Mistress back to her Husband, after she had Left him.		7
Chapter VII: An Entertainment of Neates Tongues.		8
Chapter VIII: A Second Treat of Tongues.		9
Chapter IX: Æsop bring his Master a Guest That had no sort of Curiosity in him.		10
Chapter X: Æsop’s Answer to a Magistrate.		12
Chapter XI: Xanthus undertakes to Drink the Sea dry.		13
Chapter XII: Æsop Baffles the Superstition of Augury.		15
Chapter XIII: Æsop finds hidden Treasure.		15
Chapter XIV: Æsop Expounds upon an Augury, and is made Free.		17
Chapter XV: Æsop Presents himselfe before the King of Lydia.		21
Chapter XVI: Æsop Adopts Ennus. Ennus’s Ingratitude and Falseness, and Æsop’s Good Nature.		22
Chapter XVII: Æsop’s Letters of Morality to his Son Ennus.		24
Chapter XVIII: Æsop’s Voyage to Delphos; his Barbarous Usage There, and his Death.		26